aliveness

Noun

Meaning

the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

the condition of living or the state of being alive

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

life living animation animateness liveness being support information experience attention existence recognition mobile lifetime perception
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Antonyms

death ignorance misunderstanding fatality suicidal laziness
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Hypernyms

being existence beingness face of the earth physiological property

Hyponyms

skin survival animation endurance vitality sentience

Anagrams

leaviness vealiness

Examples

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself. Jonathan Franzen

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author. William Zinsser

Awareness is aliveness. Jaggi Vasudev

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. Eckhart Tolle

Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion. Wilhelm Reich

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious. Anodea Judith

Close letter words and terms

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